You don't need to understand the lyrics to like a song, but sometimes it helps. Musixmatch is a slick way to sing along with your tunes or have an impromptu karaoke party, and now it's about to get even better. There's an updated version of it in the Play Store beta channel with some new features and a full material redesign.

Launch it directly from the notification tray and use the MusicID feature to recognize lyrics while watching YouTube music videos!

More quick actions from the menu, such as favorite, search and MusicID

Double tap on the header to maximize/minimize the floating window

Improved Add and Resync lyrics features

You can finally add new lyrics from inside the app or from FloatingLyrics: no more redirects to the website! (Edit lyrics will follow soon)

The Resync feature is now much faster, thanks to a native implementation

Brand new Search feature

A new, smarter search: just type a song title or part of the lyrics, you will get all the results immediately, with a best match on top

Search as you type, it will be even faster to look lyrics up

Added option to quickly start MusicID to identify lyrics

Various

You can now edit more fields using the "Edit song info" feature, such as track number, disc number and year

Boatloads of bug fixes and performance improvements

The app itself acts as a music player and ties in directly to local music and Spotify Premium. For Google Play Music, you can use the new FloatingLyrics UI. You launch it from a notification to show a small floating box with lyrics that advance in sync with the song. You can also minimize it to a floating icon a little like a Facebook chat head.

You can get the beta APK from the mirror below or sign up for the beta on Google+ and become a tester yourself. Musixmatch is free to use with occasional ads, but you can subscribe for $1.99 per month or $4.99 per year to get rid of them.

The mobile app ecosystem is in for a rude awakening at some point. The idea of paying $2 for lifetime updates is ending. It's either going to be subscription based (essentially this), or it's going to be a model of buying new versions of the app every year or two.

It's just impossible to maintain a flow of income if everyone has already bought the app that is going to buy it. There's no point in maintaining it anymore if you aren't CONTINUING to get paid in kind.

Eisenhorn1976

Yup -- and no one should begrudge them that. People need to get paid. The only time I am against it is when someone does a sale on an old app right before introducing a new, paid version of the app and they have no intention of supporting the old version. That's unscrupulous: like putting meat that's about to go rancid on sale.

Eisenhorn1976

Dude, a lot of apps are going that way now; it's the evolution of the mobile platform. They're trying SaaS-like pricing schemes now even for simple things like ad-removal. Ad blocking still works but in some cases, your app will have these white spaces where the ads are supposed to be. You may not actually see an ad but those white spaces can be annoying, especially when you're reading or scrolling through a list since they look cut-off.

This practice is more prevalent on iOS (where I first encountered it -- after all, iOS users spend more than their Android counterparts) but I've got a few apps on Android that have it. I paid for Musicmatch's ad removal (there are other features as well -- besides 5 bucks a year is a small sum). The Guardian Newspaper has ad removal as part of its premium tier and so do Investing.com and SeekingAlpha. I have subscriptions to all those too.

There are other apps as well that I can't remember off the top of my head but the ones I've mentioned aren't exactly unknown apps. You just haven't been keeping up.

b0b

Does it bring asking for even moar permissions ?

Sebastiano Gottardo

It shouldn't, but if it eventually does, feel free to ask why to me (developer here).

Garrett Bridges

Unrelated, but since you're here... ;)

Any chance of an option to turn off lyrics completely? I love it as a player, but I don't use the lyrics often at all.

Sebastiano Gottardo

Well, since it's a lyrics-based app, I don't see that option very likely in the near future ;) But it has been asked quite often in the past, so it might be considered eventually.

Garrett Bridges

Oh I definitely understand, I would never think of making that default or removing it completely. Just an option under where you can disable the other lyric stuff. ;) You would make a big splash in the player department, yours is by far the best looking and most functional!

Noneya busyiness

How long does it take to get lyrics approved after submitting them? I submitted lyrics for the song ' there only was one choice' by Harry Chapin. Granted I did copy and paste the lyrics from another site, but they are all accurate.

Abraham Guerra

Any chance for offline MusicID? I don't have data when travelling so I have to use Shazam that does have that feature.

Cris de Oliveira

It's beautiful! *-*

Đức Thành

Floating lyrics and auto matching lyrics? Long ago I used to have TTPod for that, until the updates screwed that app up horribly. Now I don't think I even need a music app with so many features anymore, something simple like Lyrics Grabber is enough for me. Still adding this to my wish list though, just in case.

Kaleb Peters

I have to say, I'm usually not a fan of any type of gradient. But that looks bloody brilliant!